Previous Research Cited in Nayakas of Ikkeri

Sketch of the Dynasties of South India, Robert Sewell, 1884.

Sewell's geneology was revised by L. D. Barnett in Jornal of Asiatic Society in 1910.

Dr. Shama Sastry sketched the history of Malnad chiefs in the Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Bangalore.

The same journal published a paper on Keladi dynasty by S. N. Naraharayya in 1930-31.

A 1936 paper by Lakshminarayan Rao titled "The Nayakas of Keladi" in the Vijayanagar Sexcentenary Commemoration Volume fixed the chronology of chiefs.

Father Heras in his book "Aravidu Dynasty" has given a brief account of the Ikkeri Nayakas.

Nayakas of Ikkeri - Chapter 1 - Introduction, Page 11

I have carefully studied the views of the earlier writers on the subject and discussed my differences with them regarding problems of chronology and identification in my own statements. I am however indebted to these scholars who have worked earlier in the field.

It is hoped that the present study would, for the first time, place before the public an authentic account of the Ikkeri rulers so far as it could be authentic from the source material available at persent.